Revenue minister could have to face committee on record sharing with IRS

Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of National Revenue, responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier could have to face a parliamentary committee to explain her agency’s controversial transfer of 155,000 Canadian banking records to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, iPolitics has learned.

NDP Revenue Critic Pierre-Luc Dusseault is asking Parliament’s Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics committee to hold hearings on the transfer and its impact for the privacy of Canadians. Among the people he wants the committee to call to testify are Lebouthillier and Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien.

Meanwhile, Dusseault wants the Canada Revenue Agency to halt the transfer of Canadian banking records to the IRS as a result